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at that time. Pine Street ended just to the west of McKinley, and it would be decades <br /> before Pine became a through street. <br /> _ 1 . <br /> I- :111 <br /> 111y. <br /> 11' <br /> �.: «_ i tea ___ <br /> Small one-story structures with hipped roofs, such as this one, were often built in area <br /> mine camps and later relocated into town when the mines closed. However, Louisville <br /> also has a number of small houses with hipped roofs that are believed to have been <br /> built on site and were not moved from elsewhere. The builders may have used the same <br /> architectural designs that were being used for houses in the mine camps. <br /> Clark/Rockley Family Ownership,circa 1907-1918 <br /> James Clark (1867-1936) purchased these lots by 1907 and is believed to have had the <br /> house constructed in around that year. His wife, Emma Rockley Clark(1871-1931) was <br /> born in Pennsylvania; her parents were from England and, interestingly, were married in <br /> 1864 in Constantinople, Turkey. James Clark was born in Illinois to English parents and <br /> worked as a coal miner in Louisville. In 1915, according to documents from the U.S. <br /> Patent Office, he was awarded a patent on a safety device that he invented to attach to <br /> mine cages or elevators. It was intended to prevent an elevator from falling when the <br /> cable broke. It is not known whether the device was ever marketed and sold. <br /> The children of James and Emma Clark, all of whom would have been young enough to <br /> have lived at 301 Pine, were William(1894-1963), Ellen (Seeley) (1900-death date <br /> unknown), Mae (1902-2002), and Olive (Sneddon) (1904-1999). The 1910 census <br /> records show the family to be living in the correct location for it to be this house at 301 <br /> Pine. <br /> Other members of the Clark family also lived near 301 Pine. James Clark's brother, <br /> Alexander, owned the next house to the north (now 712 McKinley) in the 1920s and <br /> lived there with his wife and children. James and Emma Clark's son, William, owned 633 <br /> Garfield, at the corner of Pine, for several decades and lived there with his wife and <br /> children as well. Later, a descendant of James and Emma Clark, Bob Sneddon, owned <br /> 301 Pine from 1958 to 1963 and owned and lived in 733 McKinley from 1963 to 1978. <br /> Most significantly,James and Emma Clark's daughter Olive, who lived at 301 Pine as a <br /> 2 <br />